December 15, 2006

"The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men" depicts a small gathering at a Nazi rally. Keith McGuckin set up the display in this northeastern Ohio city Thursday night, a day before the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah begins at sundown Friday....

"I remember thinking to myself, 'What's the worst thing a gingerbread man can do?'" he said. "They're just copying things that people have done. There are no hidden messages here."

IN THE COMMENTS: I'm not sure why, but we're talking about "The Addams Family."

Morticia was smokin' hot. Gomez was a libertarian capitalist and a horndog. They were proud to be different and never made any apologies for offending their uptight neighbors. Plus, they had the coolest relatives of all time.

Herman and Lillian Munster, OTOH. They were embarrassed about being the weirdos on the block. They were no fun, except for crazy old Grandpa.

Instead, I went with the comic relief potential. I'd say sorry for the piggy-back, except that 1) I'm not and 2) that wasn't the point.

I only wish I'd thought through my poll (and post) instead of dashing it off in no time flat. I'm feeling like the morning after the night before, where you think "If only I'd [asked]."

Ah, well. All I can say is, my husband just walked in, as is typical on weekend nights, from a band bar gig, and--upon being greeted with the Addams family theme song blaring through the speakers (via AirTunes)--asked:

"OK, which blog are you reading NOW?"

God in heaven, if that's not priceless, I don't know what the hell is.

I went searching for an image of the display. When I first saw it I felt revulsion and then began laughing (sorry) at how cookie-cutter stupid they looked doing their sieg heils, but one of the sites I searched had a sidebar image that brought on just plain revulsion.

It's impossible for me to think of "The Munsters" as even serious competition for "The Addams Family." TAF was already on the air when M copied. The main draw of M was, initially, the heavy makeup job on an actor who was already popular from another show ("Car 54"). The whole look of TAF was more fully realized, and the idea had depth, coming from a carefully drawn comics source. TAF had one of the greatest theme songs in TV history, too. Even before you get to the characters, TAF is far ahead of M.

Nazi gingerbread men and the Addams Family. Jesus. Don't you people have anything better to do?

It's a nice Saturday morning in December. Have you done your Christmas shopping? Thought of anything for Uncle Fester yet?

What about those leaves you left in the yard since October? Are you going to rake them, or are compost piles in the front yard a new trend in landscaping? If you spend all your time on this blog crap, your house is going to look like it's ready for the Addams Family.

You'll all wind up looking like the Addams Family, too, spending all that time sitting on your ass in a dark room in front of a computer.

Maybe you should start your own ghoulish TV show. Only problem is you'd be really scary. You'd have to get actors to play you so you'd seem more normal.

Get off your asses and get to work, or are you looking for Morticia's health tips on the internet?